It’s sure to create controversy, its message misinterpreted by some (or, more likely, many), but it’s taking the right people to task: lawmakers, especially Republicans, whose platitudes are indeed meaningless pablum on a night like tonight.

A mere 3.1% of American adults identify themselves as atheists. But as a recent survey shows, this increasingly important demographic consists of surprisingly diverse, and even contradictory, subsets of non-believers.

I recently came across this Salon article from 2012 that is adapted from a book called Brain Wars. This article summarizes the research, however limited, on Out of Body Experiences (OBEs) and Near Death Experiences (NDEs).

‘Cause it’s the rapture, baby! Today all pious people get to meet Sky Daddy and their promised planet per wife or something while us cool people get to have a pool party in hell. Just don’t go to the other special room with child molesters and people who talk in the theater, we don’t like those.

Someone on Facebook posted this today. This is my least favorite kind of “persuasive” article. As an atheist, I see a lot of Christians use this kind of reasoning to try to convert atheists. “I used to be an atheist. I used to hate god. Then I had a revelation.” Etc., etc. These articles only serve to reinforce the…

Hello there, everybody, this is Ridley putting out a call for authors for Bibliomancy. What’s Bibliomancy, you ask - well, I’ll tell you more about it in a minute. The short version is this: it’s a place to talk books, literature, and writing.